McKenzie v. Industrial Commission

PRATT, Chief Justice.

Owen McKenzie, a former superintendent of the Whiting and Haymond Contracting Firm, had, on account of his health, taken a less important position with them. He was called a foreman by some of his associates, but a member of the firm testified he had no such powers. He was paid, as were the other employees, on an hourly basis. While riding in a Studebaker automobile owned by the contracting firm, he was critically injured and later died as the result of that automobile’s collision with another at the corner of 5th East and 39th South in Salt Lake City, Utah. His widow…